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I respectfully suggest you try these solutions:

Get Ubuntu MATE from this link: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342&extra=&page=1

And follow my notes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/OrangePI/comments/4e9cgx/notes_for_ubuntu_orange_pi_pc_and_orange_pi_one/

What country are you in? Hardkernel has a bunch of international distributors, though some places like Canada seem to get perpetually screwed on shipping. All the Orange Pi boards as far as I'm aware are sold through Aliexpress, and so ship from China.

Many of the services you mentioned should not be run over wireless. Unless you want to set it up as an access point as well with something like hostapd. Even then you'd be better off buying a USB dongle so that you can get better throughput. If you try to run all that stuff over wireless it's going to struggle to keep up, they're not using fast wifi chips onboard. My next question would be what do you plan to use that's bluetooth given the above list of services you plan to run?

Just to make sure the board you linked at the top, the PC+. This is an H3 based model, which is a 32 bit chip. Not that you really get much from having a 64bit chip at the moment anyways. The orange pi folks make a number of boards with very familiar sounding names.

The Odroid C2 boards have their eMMC chips on removable carrier cards which not only keeps the cost down if you don't want to pay for the extra speed, but makes working with them much easier. You can pick the size eMMC you need that way as well.

Ah, I guess I didn't realize ground could be in a different spot. I found this via the opi forums with the caveat that red and yellow are swapped, but it apparently works. https://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/70CM-2FT-3-5MM-Jack-to-3-RCA-Male-Plug-Adapter-Audio-Converter-Video-AV-Cable/1553371_32248776760.html

I have cable that came with one of my Rokus somewhere I can try on my PC. If I have time tonight after work I'll look at mine and try to ID which ring with an ohmeter.

Ain't got that board but since you tried Armbian and it never worked out then maybe you wanna try OpenBSD for Arm64(Rockchip RK3399, Allwinner A64/H5, Raspberry Pi 3 and Opteron A1100)

https://www.openbsd.org/arm64.html

And try the OSes on Orange Pi site

http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/

Give jacer's Debian 8 a try: forum link

3rd post down is link to the image on Mega. I used Win32DiskImager to write the image to sd. Download the "Script.bin...for OPI-PC...zip" file from Mega as well. Copy "script.bin" and "uImage" from that folder to the "BOOT" partition, replacing both current files.

I haven't tried to do GPIO yet but according to the specs:

> 40 Pins Header,compatible with Raspberry Pi B+

And it looks to me like the RP B+, A+ and 2 all have the same GPIO scheme.

If you want a truly working and updated image to use, grab one of loboris' image from the forum. He maintains a few distros and actively supports them. http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342&extra=&page=1

Looking at the specs, it appears that the OPi's headers are for output only, but you can input 5V @ 4A via your choice of the onboard DC plug or the USB-C connector. You can pick up a 2.1mm x 5.5mm DC pigtail or make your own if you have a spare power supply laying around with that size connector.

https://www.amazon.com/Pairs-Female-Connector-Adapter-Camera/dp/B08B3WSH9T/

https://www.amazon.com/SIM-NAT-Connector-Security-Surveillance/dp/B071LQFQ17/

This. You need a manly TTL-USB adapter. Connect the GND, RX, TX wires from the adapter to the i96. Remember RX->TX and TX-RX from the adapter to i96, respectively. Then you need a serial program like Serial in order to view the debug output. Lmk if you have questions.

Thank you for commenting Firstly, this is the link of the app i mentioned

Secondly, yes, I was formating the card before hand, the software i used was Balela etcher, however, i don't think i use Debian's image, i was hard-headed into Ubuntu image since i'm more accommodated with Ubuntu

And third, It is likely since virtual box said among the lines of "unable to boot image, may be corrupt"

However, i was leaning my aunt's computer to write to the sd card, since my broke down and i bought this one as a replacement, so, right now i just have my computer :/

>more powerful antenna

Antennas are passive and, in a sense, can't be "powerful" -- but they can be directional :) instead of radiating in all directions, they can be designed to focus the energy and be "stronger" in that direction.

Take a look at something like this adapter to connect your Zero2 board to a standard WiFi antenna -- you might have more options (Wal Mart, Amazon, etc.) using one of those. Notice the difference between the RP-SMA connector and any normal SMA connector though! The standard WiFi connector is RP-SMA -- and the Zero2 uses an MHF connector (according to the schematic), so that's the adapter style you want :)

Hope that helps :D

I won't be able to try it tonight after all, but I found a video that might help :) this video shows how to connect through the serial port (but you need a bridge) using any normal computer, with a program called PuTTY

it's super straight forward :) and unlike my playing around with the Opi-3 LTS, this video shows the same board you have so it's guaranteed to work. if you haven't started with the SSH thing yet, I'd say give this one a try first (assuming you have the USB-UART bridge). It should be easier :D

So... I didn't read through the full set of instructions there. The short answer I'll offer (based on previous experience with RetrOrangePi, Lakka, RetroPie, Batocera...) is that when it boots up and you connect the P1 USB plug you'll have the option to configure the controller, similar to what you see halfway down this page: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/First-Installation/

You may need to do further tweaking in some emulators, Sega Master System and Genesis for example.

I use Zero Delay encoders in my cabinet and some home made arcade sticks, they're great. Just make sure you wire them the same as the P1 map will also map P2 controls.

The Armbian ones I got from here. But I also tried Ubuntu/Debian/Android images from here. I made a few images as well, but didn't make a difference.

This worked for my Orange Pi 2 (Android image made by loboris). Try to burn thus with Pheonix Card. Also check the for other images made by loboris. https://mega.nz/#!rF0RlK5I!VktVa4u0knwduRyySRwwB1EC7H5YocairdQgP0hFOjk

Edit: for baidu links use JDownloader

thanks for the info. did a bit of reading on TRRS jack and its configuration. Also read raspberry forum; so basically I need ground at ring2. what about this https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Raspberry-Pi-B-AV-Cable-Specified-AV-Cable-for-Raspberry-Pi-B-Black/32309607969.html . It says compatible with raspberry pi so hope it works. By the way whats the extra jack for? a different configuration?

Sorry for being late, but if you are not so dam hardcore minecraft fan, then I would suggest looking at Cuberite. The difference is like day and night (compared to official vanilla MC server) for 1-2 players.

I am not recomending, but would be great if you are aware of Minetest - minecraft alternative. Runs like several times faster than MC. :)

System ip updated. I've downloaded firmware from here http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/orangepiR1Plus/2020-12-22/orangepiR1357b4fd6e8b12f7bc81d7e40e7.html

This is excellent. My one complaint is that the referenced PhoenixCard link at the bottom of http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/ is expired, by 7 years.

The "Office Tools" under the Orange Pi Zero2 heading does link to a download for the latest version, but it's not clear that that's where to look. I'm guessing "Office Tools" should instead read "Official Tools" as the current title suggests, to me anyway, spreadsheet and word processing software.

Android was tricky to install - You have to first format the card (for some reason That pheonix card program throws a problem if the card has anything on it while it tries to format I t), then install the newest version of Pheonix card (4.2.5) from their site (it’s under Office Tools). Follow their instructions (http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/SDcardinstallation.html#Install_Android_OS_image) while etching the card very carefully - you gotta check the same boxes they check in that pdf and such, or OPi02 will just ignore the card.

Aside from their prebuilt Ubuntu, Debian, or Android 10 (32-bit) options?
http://www.orangepi.org/downloadresources/

I'm hoping for a 64-bit Android and possibly RetrorangePi. I picked up the 1GB model and wrote the Android image, but haven't tinkered yet.

I am having the same dilemma. Official description says:

>Support RTC, on-board battery backup interface

Did not found schematics, but looking at picture the is "BAT" connector in the lower right (right at the 5V DCIN connector) which may be pads for RTC battery but if they are, they need soldering. Orange Pi 4B (version with NPU and less USB3 ports) doesn't have pads there, but are (maybe) close to the USB connectors.

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Currently I am using Orange Pi Zero which doesn't have RTC and it is suboptimal. Almost bough Orange Pi 4, but... but... questionable RTC and 2 lane PCIe.

yes, even i turned off the hardware flow control as in here http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/LogintotheOrangePi.html#Using_TTL_serial_port

Both boards have H2+ main chip and XR819 wifi chip and there are no words on wifi fixes from xunlong.

 

Fun fact: the official page for the new LTS board http://www.orangepi.org/orangepizerolts/ shows a picture of board v1.4 which is at least 2 years old (as per https://forum.armbian.com/topic/4313-new-opi-zero-yet-another-high-temperature-issue/)

 

Btw > This was my first Orange Pi and it didn't disapoint me at all, I'm thinking of buying one of its big brother (Orange Pi 3)

> I tested both boards and I didn't have temperature problems and wifi breaks with the new board. The old board freezes a lot because of temperature and the wifi is too slow. The new board works better.

How the hell is it your first opi but you already had an older one to compare against?

 

Btw don't buy opi3 yet. It has broken pcie. Look at opipc2 instead: 1g ram, a53 cores, 2mb spi flash, gigabit ethernet chip.

Okay guys, thank you everyone for helping. It seems like PhoenixCard does not burn a valid image. I followed the instructions in the Docs (http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/SDcardinstallation.html) to create an Ubuntu Image instead of Android, plugged it in and it worked!

Seems like I'll have to find another way to create an Android Image or use Ubuntu :-)

The 40 pin header on the PC Plus mirrors what is on the regular Raspberry Pi, so I don't think there is audio or video there. The audio and video is just available via regular jacks.

Sounds like the Orange Pi Zero would be a better fit for you, as it doesn't bother with output jacks and instead just provides a separate row with 13 pins for video, audio and USB. A shield with jacks is also available to snap into that row.

I got the GPIO pins working on my OPi One.

These are helpful:

http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/09/26/status-of-orange-pi-boards-gpio-support/

http://www.orangepi.org/Docs/WiringPi.html

The key here being 'modprobe gpio-sunxi' to enable the gpio module and then you can use the gpio pins like a file system.

Much of the time, the support you find about the raspberry pi is more or less applicable to the Orange Pi as well, though it might take some tweaking.

Directly from loboris' mega page:

https://mega.nz/#F!wh8l2BjK!OBep3nMldBletvNNwkH2Jg Which you can find in his thread here:

http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342

I dealt with mega instead of using Google drive as I heard the Google drive versions had some issues.

These two:

ArchLinux_Minimal.img.xz scriptbin_kernel.tar.gz

I can upload my two exact downloads, if you'd like, but there is no difference. After extracting both, I used dd from my desktop Arch install to write the image to disk, and then after untaring the scriptbin_kernel package I renamed the correct uImage file and script.bin file and copied them to the boot partition of the sdcard.

You need the loboris Ubuntu trusty (14.04) version. There is an issue with uploading wireless firmware in subsequent versions. Read the last 10 pages in this monster discussion http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342

Awesome I'll give it try tonight after work. I was using images and scripts from here. Following the instructions from here.

It says to use the PI-2 uImage for PC, should I use the Pi-PLUS instead? Also I do this all through cmd line on Arch Linux so I know I'm copying the script and uImage properly.

I'll update after trying later this evening. Thanks!

Sure it is the exact same page where you have the links to the download: http://www.orangepi.org/orangepibbsen/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=342

Scroll down, down, down... http://imgur.com/zOLf4wm

Hope it works for you too. Only problem with this distribution is that I can't install libre office due to conflicting dependencies. If you could help me there :-D

If both of the Ethernet LEDs are on (esp with the other one blinking) it should work.

Maybe scan the local network with Fing (https://www.fing.com/products/fing-desktop) or nmap (https://nmap.org/book/inst-windows.html)? Although the router DHCP client list should have it displayed too.

After installing armbian on it you can install overdrive https://www.thefanclub.co.za/overgrive/installation-instructions-raspberrypi as google drive sync and and an smb client to see it in your homenetwork.

Your device -> to opi usb hdd-> google drive and the way back.

Amazon.com: SAMSUNG T5 Portable SSD 2TB - Up to 540MB/s - USB 3.1 External Solid State Drive, Black (MU-PA2T0B/AM): Computers & Accessories This is the device specifically. What device do you recommend to use along with it?

Orange Pi R1 Plus is available to order from our Amanzon.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Q8DQXCC?ref=myi_title_dp&th=1

Consulting service: [email protected]

Also maybe you can ssh/vnc or use tx/rx pins with some uart usb adapter to it then use this:

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/usb-to-vga-adapter?rmvSB=true

then with xrandr change screen output to that usb2vga

I'm not sure it helps you, but other than the Edimax, this dongle from LoveRPi absolutely does work on the Orange Pi: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B018LHT6R6

The Edimax, for reference: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003MTTJOY